Common challenges, common issues

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Common challenges, common issues

• Lorcan DempseySchool for scanningThe Hague, 16
  October 2002

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Overview

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

I do not know an awful lot about archival
institutions .
or museums
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Part one
The words of things entangle and confuse
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Goals which encourage shared activity

• To release the value of Europe's scientific,
  industrial and cultural heritage in creative use
  by its citizens.
• To engage with the cultural identities and
  aspirations of Europe and its peoples.
• To develop practices appropriate to upholding the
  values and purposes of the library, archival and
  museum traditions in a digital environment.
• To explore what it means to develop virtual civic
  presence.
• To explore sustainable economic models which
  support both development and continued equitable
  access to the cultural heritage.

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It challenges libraries to assert their public
service role, to make the links with education,
with cultural institutions, with public service
broadcasting, and to demonstrate their real value
as physical and virtual assembly places. A
life-long learning agenda cannot be realised
without public institutions that support
equitable access to the stuff of learning. This
case needs to be made and supported by visible
services, print and digital. Library values make
them such institutions they need to ensure that
their practices do also.
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Finally, and critically, people spend large parts
of their lives in the converging network spaces
of broadcasting and the Internet. Are we really
saying that such spaces should lack the
civilising presence of libraries, archives,
museums? That libraries should not try to enrich
such spaces with learning opportunity, should not
disclose the history of communities there, should
not support reading and access to cultural
resources?
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Part 2
the scene was set it repeated what Was in
the script. Then the
theatre was changedTo something else. Its past
was a souvenir.
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Grid
stewardship
high
low
low
uniqueness
high
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Libraries becoming like .

• Unique
• Processing model
• Routine for discovery and request
• Content management
• Woods and trees
• Provenance and context
• Evidential and informational
• Descriptive practices
• Preservation and archiving
• Repurposing content
• High acronymic density

• Selective exposure
• Exhibition
• Narrative
• Pedagogy

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Part 3
It must give pleasure
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The recombinant library
user environments
library
resource environment
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The recombinant library
User environment
Resource environment

• Resource environment
• Distributed
• Heterogeneous
• Recombinant
• Interoperability becomes very real
• New organizational patterns

• Distributed
• Heterogeneous
• Recombinant
• Interoperability becomes very real
• New organizational patterns

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Interoperability as recombinant potential

• Disaggregating scholarly publishing
• Linking, Identifiers
• Play learning objects
• Packaged
• Federated searching
• Fusing metadata
• Processing content
• Ingesting content
• Plugging in services
• Collectible?

• Examples
• Can I add a document to a repository?
• Can I add a repository to a distributed query?
• Can I fuse metadata from one repository with
  another?
• Can I aggregate these resources into a learning
  package?

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Libraries, archives and museums .

• Cannot achieve the big picture on a one by one
  basis

• Resource environment
• No economies of scale
• The expense of learning
• E.g. object management preservation services
  disclosure

• User environment
• A distributed approach
• Z, OAI
• An aggregated approach
• SCRAN, ArtStor, Amico, Cultural Materials
  Initiative, OCLC,
• Proquest, Gale,

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And

• Need to move from single initiative
• Nsdl
• JISC Information environment
• NOF
• IMLS
• COLIS
• Memory of the Netherlands
• Recombinant organization

• Fragmented by
• Initiative
• Domain
• Country
• Funding regime
• E.g UK higher education

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So
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Thank you
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Interoperability
Archiving
Discovery